Monday, April 5, 2010 We’re From the Government; We’re Here to “Help” You to Death They kill not because they want to Because they think it’s right to In some cases Have mercy on them and someday they may Have mercy on you The Mercy Killers Have mercy on you The Mercy Killers….– Theme to […]

Monday, June 21, 2010 The Police State’s “Cardinal Rule”: The Mundane Must Submit British officer: You call yourself a patriot, and a loyal subject to King George? Hawkeye: I don’t call myself “subject” to much of anything. Hawkeye explains the foundational tenet of the American worldview to a self-important armed government functionary offended by the […]

Thursday, June 24, 2010 Maywood, RIP: When Police Kill A City Brent Talmo once lost a job he really enjoyed, but he was eventually able to find a position in the same field, with better pay and greater responsibilities. Sure, he had been a troubled employee, prone to “bizarre behavior” and casual abuse of those […]

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Clemency for Wall Street Criminals, Prison for the Powerless A little help from a passive victim: Why did he hold still? “Who the hell are these people?” “I don’t know. I used to say they were the same ones we’ve always had to deal with. Same ones my granddaddy had to […]

Monday, July 5, 2010 Eminent Domain: We’re All Indians Now (Expanded, 7/6) Less destructive than corporatist politics: A funnel cloud looms menacingly over Peotone, Illinois. Prior to the closing of the frontier in 1890, “Manifest Destiny” was the incantation used by the government when it gave itself permission to steal property it coveted. Today, the […]

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 The Greyhound Station Gulag FEMA camp survivor: Businessman Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, stands outside the New Orleans Greyhound station that was converted into an open-air detention center following Katrina. Zeitoun was imprisoned under FEMA jurisdiction after being arrested for “trespassing” on his own property.New Orleans resident Abdulrahman […]

Friday, July 9, 2010 Addicted to the Warfare State La Reconquista? BLM travel advisory in AZ. (See corrections and clarifications below, 7/12)  (Updated below, 7/10) Which is the more serious threat to life, liberty and property: The illicit violence practiced by a handful of furtive armed drug smugglers in the Arizona desert, or the increasingly […]

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Obamacare Begins — In Idaho When the Regime sets prices, this is called “applied compassion.” When producers organize to complain about price controls, and then freely decide not to offer their services at the artificially low price, this is called “a criminal conspiracy to fix prices.” This is the central claim […]

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Tortured by Self-Pity: The Sociopathic Judge Jay Bybee The pious torturer: Jay Bybee, with his family and then-AG John Ashcroft. Of those in the dock at the Nuremberg War Tribunal, Franz Schlegelberger was considered the most sympathetic, writes historian Doug Linder. In fact, he was the model for the character of […]

Friday, July 23, 2010 The Regime’s War on Food (Updated, July 25) Enemies of food fascism: Max Kane (left) and Canadian dairy farmer Michael Schmidt Many thousands of years ago, two men came across a dairy cow, a beast neither had previously beheld.  One of them, seeking to impress the other, pointed to the creature’s […]

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 The Plunderbund’s Persecution of Phil Hart (Good News Update, July 30) See the update below. The memory of man runs not to a time when an elected representative faced an ethics inquiry over official actions involving the theft and redistribution of the property of other people.  By way of illustration, consider […]

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Presidential Dictatorship: Not Thinking Things Through He sees the flaw in your logic: Lucius Fox Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare […]

Friday, August 6, 2010 Shadows and Foreshadowing at Nagasaki Atomic shadows at Nagasaki          When U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft arrived in Nagasaki Harbor on July 31, 1905, he and the huge imperial retinue about the SS Manchuria were given a rapturous welcome.  As the ship departed that evening, notes James Bradley in […]

Thursday, August 12, 2010 The War Party’s New Torchlight Parade Contrived Controversy: Protesting the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” The most powerful patron of radical Islam is not Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia. It is the government headquartered in Washington, D.C., which for more than a half-century has diligently cultivated Islamic terrorism. Yet millions of Americans […]

Monday, January 25, 2010 Debt and Debtor, or When Timmy Met Benny Sure, they’re intellectually stunted, sartorially handicapped, and stranded in perpetual adolescence, but their grasp of economics rivals that of Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner: Dumb (Lloyd) and Dumber (Harry) live it up on money “borrowed” from a blackmailer. What is this? Where’s the […]

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Of Motes, Beams, and Holy Wars  In his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison famously denounced the proposal that Virginians — or, for that matter, Americans anywhere else — be compelled to pay so much as “three pence” to support the establishment of religion. A lawsuit filed in late […]

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Is the Muslim My Neighbor? “Pure Religion, and undefiled,” as practiced by an infidel: The Good Samaritan.   As violence raged through Gaza, Esther Najjar feared that her family — which included two young girls — would be the next target of the mob that had just firebombed the local Catholic […]

Friday, August 27, 2010 “Showtime Syndrome” Strikes Las Vegas Bryan Yant during his 2002 coroner’s inquest. “He made me do my job,” insisted Bryan Yant when asked to explain why he gunned down 21-year-old Las Vegas resident Trevon Cole last June in what was clearly an act of criminal homicide. Yant, who is employed by […]

Thursday, September 2, 2010 “Criminals With Badges”: Denver’s Militarized Police   “I been forced to write my own laws, and you violated one in there. I just have to find you guilty of contempt of cop.” Bumper Morgan, Joseph Wambaugh’s eponymous Blue Knight, justifying his brutal assault on a young man who had casually insulted […]

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Gypsies, Tramps and Thugs Would-be murder weapon: Fred Ensminger’s pickup.  “This guy …  just tried to run my husband over!” exclaimed Arkansas  resident Cindy Nelson in a frantic  911 call on July 21. “Oh, my God — he’s shooting at us! Oh, my God!” A few minutes later, Fred Ensminger — […]